The forecast for 2025 is broadly unchanged from that in the October 2024 World Economic Outlook (WEO), primarily on account of an upward revision in the United States offsetting downward revisions in ...

This is impacting labour markets and stalling progress on recovery from previous economic downturns. In 2024, global employment expanded in line with a growing labour force, keeping the unemployment ...

Gerd Altmann/Pixabay.com (CC0-PD) Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is an economic indicator that focuses on the value of goods and services a country produces. Gross National Income (GNI) includes ...

The research comes just ahead of the World Economic Forum, an annual gathering of world leaders and ... [+] wealthy business people. A major survey conducted across 36 nations shows that economic ...

Stocks sank Friday in response to good news about the economy, a development that will take some explaining. A government report Friday morning showed U.S. employers added a whopping 256,000 jobs ...

In “World Economic Situation and Prospects 2025,” U.N. economists wrote that their positive prediction was driven by the strong although slowing growth forecast for China and the United States and by ...

President-elect Donald J. Trump has moved beyond the team-of-rivals approach from his first term and chosen economic aides who will defend tariffs and tax cuts. By Alan Rappeport Ana Swanson and ...

In most of the countries we surveyed, there is widespread support for changing the economic system. In fact, in all but three nations, majorities say the economic system in their country needs major ...

People around the world see various factors as contributing to economic inequality in their country: A median of 60% across 36 countries say that rich people having too much political influence leads ...

As 2025 unfolds, Pakistan’s economic landscape remains a complex blend of promise and peril. Despite significant headwinds, including regional competition and internal structural inefficiencies, ...

UNITED NATIONS/NEW DELHI, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Global economic growth is projected to remain at 2.8% in 2025, unchanged from 2024, held back by the top two economies, the U.S. and China, according to ...

Nothing has been more important to the Labour Party under Sir Keir Starmer than economic credibility. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has set out clear fiscal rules, such as getting debt falling as a ...